Fethullah Gulen's Dialogue
M. Hakan Yavuz* Gulen’s interfaith dialogue is based on his understanding of human beings and human identity. What it means to be human (insan) and live a human life is determined in large part by our...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu and Tuna Foundation lifting up Romanian orphans’ spirit
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation in cooperation with the local Tuna Foundation gave away donations of clothing and food to the children of an orphanage in the Romanian capital Bucharest. The two foundations...
View ArticleDesmond Tutu commends Gulen inspired organization
Award recipient of the Fethullah Gulen Peace Award at the 7th Annual Ubuntu Lecture, Peace and Dialogue Awards Ceremony, Desmond Tutu, praised the work done by Turquoise Harmony Institute.“I am very...
View ArticleNYT on Erdoğan's extradition request for Gülen: Crass, cynical attempt
The New York Times editorial board published an article titled 'Let Mr. Erdogan Fight His Own Battles' on Friday in which it defined Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's attempt to get the US to...
View ArticleNY Times: Let Mr. Erdogan Fight His Own Battles
The New York Times, Editorial Not long ago, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish preacher in Pennsylvania, were the best of allies. Mr. Erdogan heads an Islamist...
View ArticleReliable Environment: Gulen-inspired Schools
Cemil Genç The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment was a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel, then a professor at Stanford...
View ArticleThe state restores itself!
Ali Bulaç The state restores itself periodically. The coups and military interventions of April 27, March 12, Sept. 12 and Feb. 28 were operations of this kind. Many believed that Feb. 28 was the last...
View ArticleErdoğan weakens fight with Islamophobia
Abdullah Bozkurt Increasingly hurtful and pointedly hateful discourse adopted by Turkey's chief political Islamist, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in the past couple of years has done a huge...
View ArticleIs it a parallel triangle or square?
Ekrem Dumanlı The lies being told for months suggesting that there is a parallel state in Turkey have obscured the nation's vision. Does the pro-government media care? Unfortunately, no. They have...
View ArticleParallel vs. Persian structure within the Turkish state
Ömer Yavuz* The list of individuals that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared to be part of an alleged “parallel structure” keeps growing. The latest addition to the list is Haşim Kılıç,...
View ArticleHospitality conference draws strong participation in Bangkok
A two-day conference on hospitality in Anatolian and Asian cultures recently held in Bangkok saw lively engagement by 200 participants including scholars, community and religious leaders, NGO...
View ArticleCentral West Africa shows up for TUSKON event
Hundreds of businesspeople from countries in central West Africa traveled to Turkey to attend a trade event coordinated by the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON) in İzmir...
View ArticleBangladesh's Turkish school student becomes first in world math exam
Ragib Mostafa, a Turkish school student in Bangladesh, has become first in world math exam. Mostafa, who was up against nine million students from 110 nations, became first in Edexcel IGCSE exam....
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu, Turkish schools extend help for flood victims in Afghanistan
International Charity organization Kimse Yok Mu and Turkish schools operating in Afghanistan delivered aid for 750 families who have been living in tents in the aftermath of a sweeping flood....
View ArticleCourt accepts indictment against 9 officers in case seen as political witch hunt
A high criminal court in Adana has accepted an indictment against nine police officers who were arrested and later released in April as part of an investigation into claims of illegal wiretapping that...
View ArticleGhana delegation explores business in Turkey
A fifteen Ghanaian business delegation is in Izmir, Turkey, to participate in an international business summit dubbed, "Turkey-Midwest Africa Trade Bridge." The highly professional international...
View ArticleMr. Minister, please look at yourself in the mirror
Ali H. Aslan My life changed since I asked two critical questions at a conference held last week in Washington, D.C., with the participation of several pro-government journalists and experts from the...
View ArticleInternational community's Erdoğan problem
Bülent Keneş Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has returned to his agenda of political Islamism since the 2011 elections even though he had rejected it in the past, and he quickly set out to...
View ArticleTall tales of the Turkish government
Sevgi Akarçeşme Embattled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been long avoiding taking questions from journalists at home unless they are openly pro-government. He has several times lashed...
View Article‘Demonization of Gülen movement seen as attempt to cover up corruption probe'
This week's guest for Monday Talk is a person who knows both Turkish and European institutions well, and he says that Turkey is increasingly driving itself away from the EU's Copenhagen criteria...
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